The Supreme Court decided two cases, Riley v. California and U.S. v. Wurie, which were about the ability of the police to search cell phones incident to a valid arrest of a suspect.  In Riley, officers performed an inventory search of Riley’s and found two firearms under the car’s hood and a cellphone on Riley’s person.  The arresting officers scrolled through the text messages on the smartphone at the scene and two hours later, they at photographs, videos, and phone numbers on the phone. 

In Wurie, the police arrested Wurie for a drug charge, and he had a cell phone on his person when arrested, which the police seized. During the booking process, the phone rang and displayed “our house.”  The police checked the call log on the phone and used the information to find the address associated with that number and obtained a warrant to search that address where they discovered evidence of criminal activity.  

In both cases, the defendants argued that a search of cell phones found on an arrestee exceeds the proper limits of a search incident to arrest.

Define a search incident to arrest. Find the supreme court decisions in Riley v. California and U.S. v. Wurie, and describe what the court decided and why.

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